Thursday, October 6, 2016
Disney's Mary Poppins sequel has all the best dark-haired British Emilys. The studio announced today that Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing, The Newsroom) will play a grown up versio…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:07PMJust in time to get you hyped for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling has added to her history of American magic. Rowling's latest installment, now on Pottermore,…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:24PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Lee Daniels, of Lee Daniels' the Butler and of Lee Daniels's other projects like Empire and the one where Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron, has a Lee Daniels announcement: he's…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:05PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Daveed Diggs is coming to Black-ish, and just like Thomas Jefferson in act two of Hamilton, he's really insufferable about all the time he spent in France. His character Johan, the brot…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:25AMThursday, September 22, 2016
America is so far gone, we have to go to Australia to find the next SNL host. Specifically, Margot Robbie, who's coming off a summer of being the best part of Suicide Squad and the best…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:02PMWhen looking for a Halloween costume, a good rule of thumb is to find something that stands out, is comfortable, and doesn't involve wearing the skin of other people's cultures in a shocking…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:25PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
In what we all hope is a long con to get Ariana Grande on Billy on the Street, Billy Eichner has joined the cast of NBC's Hairspray Live! He'll play local TV newscaster Rob Barker, who …
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:43PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
After leaving Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda cut off his ponytail. This wouldn't be much news, except, oh my God, Lin-Manuel Miranda cut off his ponytail. Sorry, we apologize for los…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:03AMFriday, September 16, 2016
In a marketing move that will draw no new Lady Gaga fans to Scream Queens (because, let's be honest, all the Lady Gaga fans are already watching it), Gaga announced today that she will …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:44PMFor 742 performances, the poor players in Broadway's Something Rotten! have strutted and fretted their hours upon the stage, but now, they will be heard no more. The Shakespeare-ce…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:50AMFox's Rocky Horror Picture Show remake is light on the lip close-ups, but heavy on the metafictional staging. Instead of offering up the classic credits roll, the first five m…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:22AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Fade in on a girl, with a hunger for fame and a talent routine to remember. That girl is Savvy Shields, who entered the competition as Miss Arkansas, and is now, through the power vested in …
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:58PMFriday, September 9, 2016
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the best show on TV, and yes, you can quote us on that. On October 21, it'll return for season two with all the musical numbers, sex jokes, and cactus outfit…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:50PMYou might think of Narcos as just another Netflix series to binge, or perhaps as drug-cartel dinner theater with Ken Burns narration, but for some, this tale of Pablo Escobar is immense…
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:57PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
At 66, Bruce Springsteen is as busy as ever: He's in the midst of a tour that has him playing hours-long sets, and he has a memoir, Born to Run, out later this month, and a new alb…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:07AMThursday, September 1, 2016
There was a film, a very strange enchanted film. They say it wandered very far, very far, until one day ... someone decided it should be a musical. Yes, Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie musical Mou…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:10AMBefore he descended into the pile of filth that is American television to play Jimmy on FX's You're the Worst, Chris Geere was an illustrious actor in the British theater (pronounced &q…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:34AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Richard Linklater loves himself a good meditation on the fleeting nature of time. The Boyhood and Before trilogy director has signed on to direct an adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:22PMThursday, August 25, 2016
As if The Color Purple didn't have a ridiculously gifted vocal cast already, Jennifer Holliday, who famously originated the role of Effie White in Dreamgirls, is returning to Broad…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:23AMFriday, August 19, 2016
As it prepares to premiere Hairspray Live!, NBC would like remind everyone that it started this whole live TV-musical revival — excuse you, Fox. It also wants to point out that t…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:51PMThursday, August 18, 2016
Appropriately choosing yet another project with a plot that's centered around a major act of violence, Hamilton's Leslie Odom Jr. is reportedly in talks to join Kenneth Branagh's remake…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:56AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Jason Sudeikis is here to sound his barbaric yawp over the roofs of New York. The SNL vet has taken the role of prep-school teacher John Keating in a production of Dead Poets Society, w…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:12AMMonday, August 15, 2016
Man's battle with machine is nonstop. Even though he's stepped away from Hamilton and is busy with about 15 million other projects, Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his valiant crusade…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:10PMMonday, August 8, 2016
Progressive historical musicals about American history are so hot right now, even if, like so many American staples, they're not made in America. Rosa, a new musical based on the l…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:54AMFriday, August 5, 2016
The snow glows white on Broadway tonight, not a director to be seen. A kingdom of isolation, and it looks like Alex Timbers is no longer the king. Disney has dismissed the prolific dire…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:21AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Well, this is one way to do a Garry Marshall tribute. Lifetime has announced that it is remaking the classic Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey tearjerker Beaches with Idina Menzel playing CC,…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:43PMMonday, July 25, 2016
Marni Nixon, who made a career out of "ghosting," or dubbing over the vocals of numerous stars in classic Hollywood films, has died at 86. Nixon provided a precisely articulated so…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:25PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Guess who wants to start "haaling" in some Tonys (it's not Maggie, at least not right now). Jake Gyllenhaal, who previously appeared in Constellations on Broadway, has signed …
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:31PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
With a cast this good, maybe Chicago audiences will forgive Hamilton for calling New York "the greatest city in the world." Miguel Cervantes, whose credits include Broadway ap…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:12PMSunday, July 10, 2016
That Tavi Gevinson, why does she always seem to be Russian ahead of the rest of us? Gevinson is returning to Broadway to play Anya in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Anton Che…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:02PMThursday, June 30, 2016
Like most humans, Julie Klausner wanted to see Hamilton, so she decided to hop on Craigslist to acquire a pair of seemingly legitimate tickets. They were not, in fact, the real thing, a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:40PM 
